[R] R works on Fedora Core 3

[Luke Tierney]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Martyn Plummer wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:19 +0100, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 19:47, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> > > On 11/09/04 20:37, Jari Oksanen wrote:
> > > >
> > > >On 9 Nov 2004, at 19:44, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> The RPM for Fedora Core 2 seems to work just fine on Core 3.
> > > >>
> > > >> (The graphics window got smaller, but I'm sure there is a setting
> > > >> for that.)
> > > >>
> > > >That would be good news. I really don't know how the graphics window
> > > >became so big at some stage. (MacOS X is just cute here: tiny, sharp,
> > > >fast graphics window.)
> > > 
> > > I have the opposite problem, a 1680x1050 display.
> > > 
> > > >Has the options()printcmd reappeared, so that dev.print() works without
> > > >changing default options?
> > > 
> > > I can't imagine how this would change.  This is the same "old"
> > > RPM, not a new one.  The option is there, and I don't think it
> > > ever disappeared.  I can't test it.  This is my laptop, which is
> > > not set up to print anything.
> > 
> > My mistake.  The default print command is determined at configure time.
> > But the RedHat RPMS are built in a sandbox that has only the minimal
> > configuration needed to build R. This doesn't include the lpr package so
> > the default print command is null. I will fix this in the next RPM
> > release, but right now I am upgrading to FC3. 
> 
> An RPM for Fedora Core 3 should be on a CRAN mirror near you by the
> weekend. This fixes the printcmd bug.
> 
> The X11() window is the right size for me, but it doesn't have a title
> bar, which is a nuisance.
> 
> Martyn
> 

I've seen this with X11 a little on FC2 but much more with rgl (maybe
50% of the time with rgl vs 5-10% for X11()).  Ross Ihaka tried
replacing the default metacity window manager with sawfish and found
that the problem seemed to go away. Ross also found a bug report for
metacity,

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126571

that might be related.  It might also be something we are not doing
quite right in opening a window that happens to bite metacity more
than other wms.  If anyone has the time and energy to pursue this
please do.

Best,

luke

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